Hi Paul, 

Thanks for your help for send patch to stable kernel.

Joey Lee

於 一,2013-03-04 於 17:34 +0100,Paul Bolle 提到:
> From: Lee, Chun-Yi <[email protected]>
> 
> commit f24c96eae58aeea4c36fb064cf3ee9734933f8fc upstream.
> 
> Fengguang Wu run kernel build test to platform-drivers-x86/linux-next git tree
> on x86_64 architecture and found a warning that was introduced by
> 727651bf738b6b917335025d09323d0962eda114 commit:
> 
> drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c: In function ‘WMID_set_capabilities‘:
> drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c:1211: warning: ‘devices‘ may be used
> uninitialized in this function
> 
> This patch fixes the above warning message.
> 
> Cc: Carlos Corbacho <[email protected]>
> Cc: Matthew Garrett <[email protected]>
> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <[email protected]>
> Cc: Corentin Chary <[email protected]>
> Cc: Fengguang Wu <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <[email protected]>
> ---
> 0) Compile tested only.
> 
> 1) The platform-drivers-x86/linux-next commit referenced above is, as
> far as I can tell, upstream commit
> f20aaba9819d0801fb1314363f97239da0100bac ("acer-wmi: fix obj is NULL but
> dereferenced").
> 
> 2) Please note that this patch doesn't just avoid a warning. It ensures
> 'devices' will be initialized before use. That was actually the point of
> this patch.
> 
>  drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c
> index afed701..684ce75 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c
> @@ -1204,6 +1204,9 @@ static acpi_status WMID_set_capabilities(void)
>                       devices = *((u32 *) obj->buffer.pointer);
>               } else if (obj->type == ACPI_TYPE_INTEGER) {
>                       devices = (u32) obj->integer.value;
> +             } else {
> +                     kfree(out.pointer);
> +                     return AE_ERROR;
>               }
>       } else {
>               kfree(out.pointer);


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